Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

Root Cellar owned by Mike Murray on Portugal Cove Road, Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. Cellar was built by his great grandfather Patrick Murray in 1820. Murray’s ancestors resettled in Portugal Cove in 1820 from Grates Cove. The cellar was built...

This cellar is a shed structure that has a hatch entrance leading down into the cellar. The cellar has a stone and cement foundation. It was built in 1952 by Father Patrick Kennedy’s father, and has been inactive for vegetable storage since 1956....

This cellar is a shed structure that has a hatch entrance leading down into the cellar. The cellar has a stone and cement foundation. It was built in 1952 by Father Patrick Kennedy’s father, and has been inactive for vegetable storage since 1956....

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root cellar owned by Bill Lamswood on St. Thomas’ Line, Portugal Cove -St. Phillips. The cellars is located in the barn and enter through a hatch entrance. It is roughly 2.5m x 4m. It has built in pounds and is used even today for the storage of...

Root Cellar owned by Agnes Mulcahy in Cape Broyle. It was built in the early 1950’s by her late husband. The cellar is built into a set of concrete exterior stairs that was chiselled by hand with a star chisel through the basement foundation....

The government house root cellar is located in one of the many outbuildings in the back of the property toward Circular Road in St. John’s. It is located next to the vegetable field and barn. It is believed to have been built around 1831....

Michael Murray describes what a root cellar is by talking about the construction of cellars and the main components of a cellar in regard to drainage, high humidity, and keeping frost out; the construction of his cellar and how it is attached to...

The government house root cellar is located in one of the many outbuildings in the back of the property toward Circular Road in St. John’s. It is located next to the vegetable field and barn. It is believed to have been built around 1831....

Root Cellar owned by Agnes Mulcahy in Cape Broyle. It was built in the early 1950’s by her late husband. The cellar is built into a set of concrete exterior stairs that was chiselled by hand with a star chisel through the basement foundation....